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>>isaacf+(OP)
Step by step, ever since the calling the diver a "pedo", every since the "funding secured" i've began to realise just how petty and pathetic elon is. Every opportunity he has he seems to show just how vindictive he really is. Man child who now has way too much money. Buying Twitter on a whim is the latest in a string of decisions which do not align with the "let's get to Mars and save earths environment" stuff he likes to be seen as.

>>3D2902+ac
He's lost himself in the fake popularity of being a social media celebrity. He started believing that having 100 million followers on a web site really means that a continent's worth of people adore you. For all his complaints about bots after he got cold feet on the Twitter purchase, he seems strangely naïve about how social media really works and what's real there.

“This is ridiculous,” he said, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting. “I have more than 100 million followers, and I’m only getting tens of thousands of impressions.”

- https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/9/23593099/elon-musk-twitter...

By Monday afternoon, “the problem” had been “fixed.” Twitter deployed code to automatically “greenlight” all of Musk’s tweets, meaning his posts will bypass Twitter’s filters designed to show people the best content possible. The algorithm now artificially boosted Musk’s tweets by a factor of 1,000 – a constant score that ensured his tweets rank higher than anyone else’s in the feed.

- https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23600358/elon-musk-tweets...

>>pavlov+Ed
So the real reason behind him buying Twitter was to force the entire site to be his followers? Lmao.

>>moffka+te
This is pretty plainly obvious to anyone who has been a Twitter user throughout this whole thing.

I was (was) a daily user for the last ~8 years. Then a few months ago all of the sudden like half my timeline was either elons tweets or tweets about elon. I don’t follow him and never have. But there he was, all over my timeline.

>>rco878+cf
I have been using Twitter for 12 years and this has not been "obvious" to me at all. You shouldn't assume that your opinions are obvious or even shared by the majority of people you mention.

>>DeusEx+8g
Another 12 years user here: I had to block Elon because muting him wasn't enough, and I was getting tired of the sudden massive influx of Elon tweets I was seeing.

Just anecdata though.